Fayetteville, Ga. — Trilith Development plans to soon complete Trilith Live, a 530,000-square-foot live entertainment complex at the Town at Trilith, a 235-acre master-planned community in Fayetteville within south metro Atlanta. Designed to host concerts, performing arts, rehearsals, live audience productions, conventions, corporate events and banquets, Trilith Live is scheduled to open to the public by the end of the year.
The project will include a 2,200-seat theater, two 25,000-square-foot sound stages (now open), multiple insert stages, a luxury cinema, production suites, meeting rooms and more than 120,000 square feet of creative office and support space.
“Trilith Live is designed to serve as a hub for creativity, production and live entertainment,” says Matt McClain, general manager and executive director of Trilith Live. “We are building the infrastructure to support everything from concerts to live TV tapings to conventions and meetings to community and arts events, all in one place.”
Phase I, which includes live sound stages, production offices, greenrooms and broadcast-ready facilities, is complete and actively hosting artists, production companies and content creators. Several national acts preparing for their summer tours have completed pre-tour concert rehearsals at Trilith Live. Additionally, more than 200 live audience game show episodes that will air on national TV have filmed at the property.
Phase II, scheduled to open later this year, will include the main theater, meeting rooms, luxury cinema and central plaza.
The project is expected to create hundreds of jobs and attract a mix of touring artists, TV productions, live events and conventions. As a nonprofit organization, Trilith Live is also dedicated to supporting the performing arts and serving residents by providing a space for local theater events, church services, charitable galas and other community events.
Town at Trilith is slated to include 750 single-family homes, 600 multifamily lofts, 300 hotel rooms and 270,000 square feet of restaurants, retail, office and commercial space. According to the development team, the residential neighborhoods at Trilith comprise the largest geothermal community in the United States, with 51 percent of the development dedicated to green space that is currently home to more than 1,000 trees. Residents will have access to 15 miles of nature trails, 54 acres of forest, 19 landscaped parks and a dog park.
Town at Trilith is located adjacent to Trilith Studios. In 2020, Pinewood Atlanta Studios, the producer of blockbuster films such as Avengers: Endgame, rebranded as Trilith Studios in conjunction with the announcement of the master-planned development.
According to the Georgia Department of Economic Development, the film industry has brought as much as $4 billion a year to the Georgia economy.
— Kristin Harlow